[Epoch Times November 11, 2021](Hong Kong Epoch Times reporter Zhang Mingjian, Yingge Comprehensive Report) Sun Lijun, deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security and director of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office of the Ministry of Public Security, was formally arrested on November 5. After Sun Lijun fell from the horse in April last year, the purge soon affected the Guangdong political and legal system that he had close contact with. Now a political storm is sweeping across Hong Kong.
“The current situation in Hong Kong is like the silence before the storm,” said Ji Da, an expert on China.
On November 5, Sun Lijun was formally arrested, and the charge was reduced from the long list listed by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to one-“suspicion of taking bribes.” This is in line with the practice of the Chinese Communist Party. In the past 10 years, the Xi Jinping authorities have mostly used economic crimes to deal with politically wrong officials. For example, Bo Xilai, the former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, who was suspected of launching a coup, has only been charged with economic crimes. An “abuse of power”. Bo Xilai was sentenced to life imprisonment on September 22, 2013.
The Sun Lijun case is part of a series of cases spanning the two five-year terms of Xi Jinping, and is connected with the Bo Xilai case. The “anti-send to China” movement that broke out in March 2019 has linked the situation in Hong Kong with the Sun Lijun case.
The Xi Jinping authorities are carrying out a “everyone pass” operation within the police system to eliminate Sun Lijun’s influence. Public Security Minister Zhao Kezhi asked at a meeting on October 1 that those connected with Sun Lijun should take the initiative to “clarify the problem and clarify the problem. We must draw a clear line, so that we can see people and things see our thoughts and responsibility. Thoroughly eliminate the influence of Sun Lijun’s poisonous influence.”
Obviously, Zhao Kezhi’s speech also revealed that the circle of influence behind Sun Lijun is the target of Xi Jinping’s authorities.
Sun Lijun had previously been promoted from Deputy Director of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office to Deputy Director of the General Office of the Ministry of Public Security. He was promoted to the Director of the First Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security in March 2013 and concurrently served as the Director of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office of the Ministry of Public Security from December 2016 until 2020. Falling in April. During this period, he was promoted to Deputy Minister of Public Security in March 2018 and concurrently held the first two positions. The Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office is the department that connects the Chinese Communist Party’s public security system with the Hong Kong police system.
The first bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, the Political Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, has a great overlap with the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office. In September 1983, the bureau was renamed the Counter-Revolutionary Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. In fact, the nature of this institution is like the Gestapo of Nazi Germany.
As a spy agency, the First Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security was first formed by the merger of the Enemy Special Reconnaissance Bureau and the State Special Reconnaissance Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. Sun Lijun is actually the person in charge of Hong Kong’s stability maintenance work in the public security system. In December 2017, he and the then Secretary for Security of Hong Kong Li Jiachao signed the “Arrangement of the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on the Mutual Notification Mechanism on Criminal Compulsory Measures or Criminal Prosecutions”. Or the situation of criminal prosecutions and cases of abnormal deaths shall be notified to each other.
In the second half of 2019, when the “returning” movement broke out, Hong Kong provoked an increase in bizarre deaths such as floating corpses at sea and falling of dead bodies from buildings. A large number of similar cases did not occur before and after the “returning” movement. It is suspected that many cases are related to the CCP’s attempt to intimidate Hong Kong people in this way.
A reporter from Hong Kong Epoch Times recently asked the Hong Kong police about the following questions via e-mail: 1. From May 2019 to April 2020, whether the Hong Kong Police Force needs to follow Sun Lijun, then director of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office of the Ministry of Public Security instruction? 2. Does the then Secretary for Security Li Jiachao need to report directly to Sun Lijun on Hong Kong affairs? 3. How will the formal arrest of Sun Lijun affect the Hong Kong police and security system?
The Hong Kong Security Bureau and the Police Force did not explicitly answer the above questions. They only stated that according to the notification requirements of the Central Government and the Hong Kong Government signed in December 2017, from February 2018 to October this year, there were about 2,300 Hong Kong people. Criminal coercive measures were taken in mainland China.
The official arrest of Sun Lijun will inevitably make some people in the political and police circles of Hong Kong feel uneasy.
At the same time, Chief Executive Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Director of the Food and Health Bureau Chen Zhaoshi, and Secretary of Security Deng Bingqiang have all suffered injuries to varying degrees in their hands recently. Some geomologists told the media that this is a bad sign.
“The current political situation in Hong Kong is like the silence before the storm, but Hong Kong people should not be too pessimistic.” Ji Da, an expert on China in the United States, told The Epoch Times.
However, Sun Lijun is still only a small role in the foreground, he is not Xi Jinping’s final goal.
The purge storm has swept across Guangdong
The cleansing of the police system has swept through Hong Kong’s immediate neighbour-Guangdong, where Sun Lijun’s intervention in Hong Kong’s stability maintenance work is at the forefront.
Guangdong and Hong Kong have close ties. This is not only reflected in the former sending food and water to the latter, but also in speaking the same language-Cantonese.
In recent years, Guangdong and Hong Kong have formed an integrated model for maintaining stability.
According to the new “China Statistical Yearbook” data, in 2019, the CCP’s budget for maintaining stability has exceeded military expenditures, reaching 1,390.1 billion yuan (RMB, the same below). Among them, Guangdong is the province with the largest expenditure on stability maintenance and the only stability maintenance fund with more than 100 billion yuan. Provinces, reached 142.6 billion yuan. On the contrary, Xinjiang’s stability maintenance expenditure under high pressure is only 56.1 billion yuan, which is only 40% of Guangdong’s.
The situation in Xinjiang has been turbulent in recent years. The CCP has built “re-education camps” there, deployed various high-tech surveillance equipment, and deployed a large number of military, police, and special forces to suppress local ethnic groups. However, the relatively quiet Guangdong Province’s stability maintenance funds have abnormally exceeded them by a large margin. To Xinjiang.
In fact, Hong Kong people have long suspected that the CCP uses Guangdong as a base for maintaining Hong Kong’s stability.
Lu Bingquan, a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism of Hong Kong Baptist University, wrote in Ming Pao on March 12, 2019 that Guangdong’s huge stability maintenance funds are related to Hong Kong.
“The main part of Hong Kong’s stability maintenance fee has been paid from Guangdong for many years: intelligence, national security, national security, military, and researchers from Shenzhen, Guangzhou and even Zhuhai have come to Hong Kong for many years to collect intelligence and even operations in various fields. Make the stability maintenance fee continue to increase.” Lu Bingquan wrote.
The Epoch Times received news that during the outbreak of the “anti-send to China” movement in Hong Kong in 2019, Sun Lijun set up an office in the Shenzhen-related command center next to Hong Kong to personally direct the stability maintenance work against Hong Kong people.
After Sun Lijun was overthrown, the purge soon affected the Guangdong political and legal system that he had close contact with.
In 2020, when Sun Lijun fell from the horse (April), Wang Zhizhong, a member of the Xi Jinping faction, parachuted from the post of Deputy Director of the Secret Service of the Ministry of Public Security to Guangdong as Director of the Provincial Public Security Department. The former Director Li Chunsheng resigned.
Since the beginning of this year, as the Sun Lijun case has entered the stage of in-depth investigation, some high-ranking officials in the political and legal system of Guangdong Province have been dismissed one after another, including the two deputy secretaries of the Provincial Political and Legal Committee Jiang Kaixin and Chen Wenmin, and the former deputy director of the Provincial Public Security Department He Guangping, Zhang Ronghui, former deputy director of the Provincial Department of Justice, Long Shuibo, former political commissar of the Economic Investigation Bureau of the Provincial Public Security Department, Zheng Jia, former secretary of the Shanwei Municipal Political and Legal Committee, Huang Tiansheng, secretary of the Yunfu Municipal Legal Committee, and Fan Xiuliao, deputy dean of the Guangdong Police Academy.
At the same time, Song Fulong, who was parachuted in Guangdong to serve as Secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection in March this year, is also a member of Xi Jinping’s faction. Just two months after he arrived in office, the Guangdong Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection announced an investigation into the current deputy secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Commission Jiang Kaixin.
Sun Lijun intervenes in Hong Kong to maintain stability
Under the framework of the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China, Sun Lijun is responsible for the docking work with the Hong Kong police system.
In December 2017, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and then Secretary for Security Li Jiachao traveled to Beijing to sign the “Mainland and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s Mutual Notification Mechanism on Criminal Coercive Measures or Criminal Prosecutions”.
At that time, Sun Lijun signed this document with Li Jiachao as the director of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office of the Ministry of Public Security. Public Security Minister Zhao Kezhi and Lin Zhengyue’e were witnesses.
Sometimes, Sun Lijun will appear in Hong Kong as a leader. According to Guo Wengui, a wealthy Chinese businessman in exile in the United States, Sun Lijun had personally visited Hong Kong to command the “anti-transmission” movement to maintain stability. During the “anti-transmission” movement broke out in 2019, Sun Lijun set up an office in the Hong Kong Police Headquarters.
During that time, there was a sudden increase in bizarre deaths in Hong Kong, including headless cases such as swimmers floating naked to the surface, frozen corpses falling from tall buildings, and bizarre deaths.
Guo Wengui said that Sun Lijun was behind these bizarre murders, and “only a demon like him can do this kind of thing.”
Sun Lijun exposes faction background after Wuhan’s “anti-epidemic”
Before the outbreak of the epidemic in China in 2020, there was still no sign that the Xi Jinping authorities suspected Sun Lijun. It was not until Sun Lijun went to Wuhan to supervise the epidemic that his true factional background was exposed.
In February last year, the CCP established the Central Epidemic Command Group. Its members included Sun Chunlan, Vice Premier of the State Council of the Communist Party of China, Chen Yixin, Secretary General of the Political and Legal Committee of the CPC Central Committee, and Sun Lijun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Public Security.
In the screen of CCTV’s “News Broadcast” on February 10, Sun Lijun was in Wuhan and made a video connection with Xi Jinping. This shows that Xi Jinping’s authorities still did not doubt him at the time. But soon, Sun Lijun turned from a political star to a prisoner.
Sun Lijun had previously studied at the University of New South Wales in Australia, studying public health and urban management. His wife has Australian citizenship.
After the epidemic spread from China to the world, the Australian government showed an unusual response. First, it called on the international community to independently investigate the origin of the virus and hold the Chinese government accountable for improper handling of the epidemic.
On June 16 last year, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne criticized the Chinese Communist Party for producing false information during the pandemic, which would cause loss of life.
Australia’s reaction once aroused the international community’s vigilance. Some observers speculated that the Australian government may have negative direct evidence about the origin of the virus and mishandling that the CCP does not want the outside world to know.
The relevant report of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection also revealed that Sun Lijun was suspected of leaking secrets. One of his charges was-“in the front line of the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic, he left his post without authorization, and privately hid a large amount of confidential materials.”
Current commentator Tian Yun wrote in The Epoch Times on October 1 that “the so-called private disclosure of confidential materials is a leak.” There have long been rumors that the epidemic materials in Sun Lijun’s hands were obtained by the Australian government, so the Australian government first called for investigation of the origin of the virus. Tian Yun wrote that the report of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection nearly verified this statement.
In addition, Free Asia reported on November 5 that overseas media once exposed that Sun Lijun, through his naturalized Australian wife, had hidden a bunch of “life-saving charms” in Australia, including a large number of top-secret documents, case files, and deposits of more than 100 in the local bank. One hundred million U.S. dollars.
What is certain is that once the international community obtains Sun Lijun’s “privately hiding a large amount of confidential materials”, it will be detrimental to the incumbents of the Chinese Communist Party. So far, the calls of many countries, led by the United States, to blame the CCP for the spread of the epidemic have been plagued by Xi Jinping’s authorities.
Sun Lijun is just an agent. He can jump from the deputy director of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office to an important post in the Ministry of Public Security, and there are other people behind him. Sun Lijun’s leaking of secrets was part of the anti-Xi plan, but instead it exposed him to the true factional background, and the anti-Xi forces would damage another cadre.
The Sun Lijun case is a continuation of the Zhou and Bo coups
Sun Lijun, who is exposed to the public eye, is just a gunner with a bigger plan. He is not the ultimate opponent Xi Jinping really wants to strike.
To clarify the Sun Lijun case must be traced back to an event that happened on the eve of Xi Jinping’s 2012 ruling.
On February 6th that year, a senior official disguised as a woman and entered the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu to seek political asylum. One day later, he “voluntarily” left. He was eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Chinese Communist Party.
Two days after the incident (8th), the spokesperson of the US State Department confirmed that Wang Lijun, the then deputy mayor of Chongqing and former chief of the Chongqing Municipal Public Security Bureau, had gone to the US Consulate in Chengdu to meet with US personnel, but then “left on his own.”
A week after the “Wang Lijun Incident”, former “Washington Times” senior writer Bill Gertz published a long article “The House of Representatives Investigating the Misunderstood Wang Lijun Contribution Case” in the “Washington Free Beacon” ( House Probes Botched Defection in China), for the first time disclosed the details of Wang Lijun’s overnight stay at the US Consulate in Chengdu.
Two U.S. officials revealed that Wang Lijun provided the U.S. with materials on high-level CCP corruption, including materials from Chongqing Municipal Party Committee Secretary Bo Xilai. “Washington Times” published Goetz’s article saying that one of the officials revealed that Wang Lijun’s control of the high-level power struggle of the Chinese Communist Party is extremely precious, involving Zhou Yongkang, member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee and secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, and how hard-liners like Bo Xilai think Bring down Xi Jinping and prevent him from succeeding smoothly.
A coup plan against Xi Jinping was thus exposed. The officials participating in this coup have one thing in common. They are all important members of the Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong factions.
Subsequently, more details of the coup plan flowed out. They plan to weaken Xi Jinping’s power first, and help Bo Xilai take over as secretary of the CCP’s Political and Legal Committee to control the police and armed police system. When the time is right, they will force Xi Jinping to hand over power.
The Epoch Times had exclusively reported that Zeng Qinghong was the mastermind behind the coup plan, and after the incidents of Bo Xilai and Zhou Yongkang, the backbone of his factions, Zeng Qinghong did not stop the coup plan against Xi Jinping.
One month after the “Wang Lijun Incident”, on March 15, 2012, Bo Xilai was arrested as secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee; Zhou Yongkang, secretary of the Political and Legal Committee and member of the Politburo Standing Committee, was also deposed at the end of the following year. In the end, Bo Xilai and Zhou Yongkang were sentenced to life imprisonment. Later, some senior officers in the army were dismissed, and most of them were sentenced to heavy sentences, including the two Vice-Chairmen of the Military Commission in charge of the army, the commander of the armed police force, and the commander of the military region.
This large-scale arrest involving high-ranking officials was the first time since the “Cultural Revolution”, and the purge caused by the coup d’etat continues to this day.
Before Sun Lijun entered the Ministry of Public Security, he was an official in Shanghai for a long time, where Jiang Zemin’s Zeng Qinghong faction was born. Sun Lijun, Fu Zhenghua and Meng Hongwei, the two former deputy ministers of the Ministry of Public Security who had been dismissed before, were all trusted confidants cultivated by Zeng Qinghong, and Sun Lijun was one of the executors of Zeng Qinghong’s control of Hong Kong.
Xi Jinping’s confidant, Wang Xiaohong, deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Security and director of the Secret Service, placed Sun Lijun alongside Zhou Yongkang, Meng Hongwei, and others who were suspected of launching a coup at a meeting on September 3.
When Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong were in power, the entire spy system of the CCP, the government, and the military were all under the leadership of Zeng Qinghong alone. From that time on, the deformed state governance mechanism of “secrets governing the country” gradually took shape. Zeng Qinghong is still influential in the spy system, and this has also become a major hidden danger for Xi Jinping in power.
Zeng Qinghong, who is hidden from the public eye, is the ultimate target Xi Jinping will strike. He is the actual controller of the political power Jiang Zemin’s Zeng Qinghong faction.
Xi Jinping cannot effectively control Hong Kong
The “Central Hong Kong and Macau Working Group” established in 2003 is the highest body of the CCP’s control of Hong Kong. It is led by a Politburo Standing Committee member. Zeng Qinghong is the first team leader, followed by Zhang Dejiang, and then Xi Jinping. The current team leader is Han Zheng. Except for Xi Jinping, the rest are members of the same faction of Zeng Qinghong.
Zeng Qinghong’s younger brother Zeng Qinghuai used to be the Special Commissioner of the Ministry of Culture of the Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong. In fact, the Chinese Communist Party controls Hong Kong’s cultural, performing arts and entertainment sectors through him.
The CCP implements the spy rule of Hong Kong. Zeng Qinghong used to be the chief of the CCP spy system. Due to the special spy profession, Zeng Qinghong can still intervene in Hong Kong affairs through the spy network he deployed in Hong Kong in the past, including the sacked Sun Lijun. Zeng Qinghong cultivated many of these. Agent.
The influence of the Xi Jinping administration on Hong Kong is mostly limited to the superficial level of the Hong Kong government, and its control over the hidden spy system is very limited.
Hong Kong is Zeng Qinghong’s sphere of influence, and some anti-Xi incidents are more likely to happen here.
In March 2020, Chen Ping, chairman of the Hong Kong Sunshine Satellite TV Group, forwarded an open letter on WeChat, stating that Xi Jinping should be responsible for the current domestic and diplomatic difficulties. The open letter called for the CPC Central Committee to urgently convene an enlarged meeting of the Politburo to discuss the issue of Xi Jinping’s stay.
One month after the incident, Sun Lijun, who was in charge of Hong Kong affairs at the Ministry of Public Security, fell from the horse, and one of Zeng Qinghong’s agents who controlled Hong Kong was removed.
China expert Ji Da said that the First Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security and the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office were controlled by Sun Lijun in the past. It can be expected that these two departments and related units or individuals will be more or less implicated. After all, Sun Lijun What is involved is Zeng Qinghong’s coup attempt against Xi Jinping, at least an attempt to prevent Xi Jinping from being re-elected next year. @#◇
Editor in charge: Lian Shuhua
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